Category: Politics

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The newest model of the Airbus was unveiled this fall, complete with orchestra. Photo Courtesy of Airbus Industrie

The Failed Crusade Against Airbus

George Prill liked to work on a large scale. As president of Lockheed’s international aircraft unit, he tried to make an unprecedented deal for the sale and production of L1011 jetliners with the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s. Later in the decade, he played a

President John F Kennedy campaigned for his new trade bill at the dedication of the Nashville Avenue wharf in New Orleans on May 4,1962.

America’s Trade Warriors–Still Searching for the Right Weapon

On Seventeenth Street, just a short walk from the White House, is a handsome, five-story building that is one of the oldest government offices in Washington. Appropriately, it houses the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), which deals with an issue that has bedeviled

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The New Enemy in Guatemala

The signs are visible everywhere in Guatemala. Newspapers carry frequent accounts of grisly execution-style murders. Immigration authorities report a surge in the entry of Colombian nationals. Deluxe apartment buildings and office complexes rise dramatically on the outskirts of Guatemala City. A newly chartered bank in

The funerals of two local villagers killed by the Israeli army prompted a political rally at Kufr Neimeh in the West Bank.

Faces of the Anguished Middle East

APF Fellow James Lukoski has made several trips to the Middle East, focusing on Israeli-Palestinian issues. These photographs illustrate some of the tensions in the West Bank and Jerusalem and were taken before the U.S. declared war on Iraq. The funerals of two local villagers

Gay Day 1990 in San Francisco featured a dart game using Sen. Jesse Helms as the target to raise money for the North Carolina Senate race.

Gay Politics

Photos by Marc Geller NEW YORK-The walls of the elevator were polished mahogany. Inside stood four people. A somewhat severe elderly woman in a business suit was coming home at day’s end. An unmistakably wealthy gentleman with a maroon silk ascot and yellowish white hair